Wilderness

(1) 2017 Calendars… pre-order now! (2) Instagram… I’m going to try sharing images there. Find me: floris_van_breugel! (3) I apologize for the lack of adventurous posts lately. I have spent much of my photographic time and energy the past two summers on a research and photography project studying the alkali flies of Mono Lake. When …Read the Rest…

My 2015 calendars arrived, and they look fantastic. I will start shipping orders this week.Click to order your 2015 Art in Nature Adventure Series Calendars now!Limited supplies, order soon! ~ ~ ~ There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, …Read the Rest…

Wilderness: “…an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man…” Wilderness Act, Section 2(c) This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, which protects over 100 million acres of land from machines and development. Unfortunately, these spiritual places are coming under more and more attack. A few weeks …Read the Rest…

What follows is a condensed excerpt that I wanted to share from a longer essay that I have been working on. I would greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts, personal experiences, and other articles that resonate with these ideas! Feel free to leave a comment below, or send me an email. It happens to all of …Read the Rest…

About Me: My name is Floris van Breugel, and I'm a part-time nature photographer and full-time scientific researcher with a PhD in engineering and a focus on the neuroscience of insect flight behavior. Read more about Floris van Breugel, or contact him.